Day 11: "Don't touch me!" / "Don't leave me."
The Angel was inside Asuka's head. Everyone was inside Asuka's head, torn out of her own mind. Her mother, her father, her other mother, Kaji Misato Shinji Ayanami everyone everyone they were all around her smothering her suffocating her GO AWAY GO AWAY GO AWAY
and they were gone. She was all alone, except for the alien presence tearing through her brain.
NO! COME BACK!
And they were there, there to take part in her shame and weakness, watching it all, and as she screamed they were gone, leaving gaping holes and a deafening silence.
there gone there gone there gone there gone
That's how you always are, aren't you? said someone without words. It might have been the Angel, or it might have been Asuka herself. Pushing them away with one hand and clawing desperately for them with the other.
WEAK. Too weak to be on your own, too weak to keep anyone here.
there gone there gone there gone, and all Asuka could do was scream.